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State-Level Accountability for the Performance of Students with Disabilities: Five Years of Change?.
Peer reviewedElliott, Judy L.; Erickson, Ron N.; Thurlow, Martha L.; Shriner, Jim G. – Journal of Special Education, 2000
This study indicates dramatic increases in the number of states using data from students with disabilities on school participation, exit, and achievement in their accountability systems and in the number of states with guidelines on the use of assessment accommodations. States seem to have changed little in knowledge about student participation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Data Collection, Disabilities
Download full textThurlow, Martha L.; Langenfeld, Karen; Nelson, J. Ruth; Shin, Hyeonsook; Coleman, Jo – 1998
This report summarizes a study that analyzed the state education accountability reports of 48 states and Washington, DC, and the inclusion of students with disabilities in the accountability systems. Extreme variability was found to exist in the reporting practices across states and there was little information on students with disabilities. Only…
Descriptors: Accountability, Data Collection, Disabilities, Educational Assessment
Thurlow, Martha L.; Langenfeld, Karen L. H.; Nelson, J. Ruth; Shin, Hyeonsook; Coleman, JoAnne E. – 1998
This report summarizes a study that analyzed the inclusion of students with disabilities in the accountability systems of 48 state education accountability reports and that of Washington, D.C. Extreme variability was found to exist in the reporting practices across states and there was little information on students with disabilities. Eleven…
Descriptors: Accountability, Data Collection, Disabilities, Educational Assessment
Ysseldyke, James E.; Thurlow, Martha L.; Langenfeld, Karen L.; Nelson, J. Ruth; Teelucksingh, Ellen; Seyfarth, Allison – 1998
This report discusses the findings of a study that analyzed 115 public reports from state accountability offices and state special education offices to investigate how students with disabilities are doing academically and nonacademically. A framework developed by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO) was used to organize results.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Data Collection, Disabilities
Ysseldyke, James E.; Thurlow, Martha L.; Kozleski, Elizabeth; Reschly, Daniel – 1998
Based on the findings of a 1998 conference on the new assessment and accountability requirements in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), this report discusses critical issues that surround the assessment provisions included in the 1997 IDEA amendments and contains recommendations related to state and district-wide assessments…
Descriptors: Accountability, Data Collection, Disabilities, Educational Assessment
Thurlow, Martha L. – 1994
This booklet examines national and state educational reform in the 1990s, noting the ways in which performance assessment is being presented as a mechanism of reform. Three reform initiatives are examined: national education goals, standards, and reform legislation. In conjunction with these reform movements, new methods of assessment are being…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Data Collection, Disabilities, Educational Assessment
Ysseldyke, James E.; Thurlow, Martha L. – 1999
This report summarizes the present and past status of students with disabilities in educational assessment and accountability systems, and highlights the critical emerging issues to be addressed. Issues include participation in accountability systems, graduation requirements, data management, accommodations, alternate assessments, reporting, and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Alternative Assessment, Data Collection, Disabilities
